August 24, 2011

Haiga 637 Robert D. Wilson haiku - letter

Haiku by Robert D. Wilson. Artwork by myself.
I picked this haiku from Robert's Viet Nam haiku series.

Viet Nam...it seems so long ago. I was going to school in Hawaii when the war was raging, some of my classmates got drafted, some volunteered. As for myself, I was too busy adjusting to the school and to American way of life, to really see what was happening in the world. In a way, I was fighting my own little war on a little island in the Pacific. Receiving a letter from home at such time was so comforting, it helped summon up my will to face each day of the small battles.

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A haiga (haiku+artwork) artist. A priest of Tenrikyo.
The advisor of World Haiku Association, and the judge of WHA Haiga Contest (http://www.worldhaiku.net/).
Living in Tenri, Japan, near a city called Nara. My full name is Kuniharu Shimizu: seehaikuhere(at)gmail(dot)com